burn the man!

*coughs and taps the mike*

i would just like to share my puppy dog excitability about the fact that i now (finally) have my burning man tickets in my grubby lil' paws.

yar!

blast me about the point of this post at another time. yes. thank you.

me sleep now.

Kiss and Aerosmith?

Pffft.

Maybe if you had tickets for M�t�rhead and Anthrax…

Speaking of which, I'd better go get mine soon..

Try Metallica/Deftones/LimpBizkit/Linkin Park/Mudvayne

That's why I won't be at MOObash. :)

I'd go just to see Metallica but they're the primary performers,pretty much everyone else is an extended opening act.
Mudvayne - Eh'…could be worse
LimpBizkit - New stuff is apparently decent..let's hope so
Linkin Park - New album was pretty good. Still not sure why Nu Metal gets frowned upon...bands like KoRn, LP, Evanescence...they're not bad at all.
Deftones- Probably one of the most underrated metal bands around. Only downside is that live, they're vocalist isn't so great. But a good band.
Metallica- I won't even start about them, or I'd end-up ranting for 5 pages, if not more. They've gotten a -LOT- of crap over their newer albums, but from what they've said, and from what -numerous- metal magazine journalists have said, this new album they're putting out (June 10th) is going to make every other metal band on the planet look pathetic. It makes the guitar antics from the '...And Justice For All' album, some of the most complicated and intense guitar playing ever, sound simple. And with their new bass player...I think it's going to be an -insane- turn around for them.
/rant

I think it's because Max may have assumed Burning Man was a band. But I may be mistaken.

I think I'll have some more wine now.

I have tickets to see M�t�rhead

and Metallica

and System of a Down

:)

What is burning man.

and i prefer Rob Zombie to limpbizkit and propellerheads and deftones to LP, but LP isn't all bad. just get a little repetivie in thier sounds.

DF Dub is just funny as hell.

emote counts out 2 coins and says "Yup thats my 2 chyen"

That reminds me what the hell is chyen?    paper? coin? plastic?

I'd just like to point out that John Mayer and Counting Crows are playing at the Gorge in July.

Thank you, best concert ever!

(and it snowed too fakin much here….)

yes. and make sure you get all your gank spit off of it before i eat it.  

Quote: from Max on 12:24 pm on April 27, 2003[br]And what's wrong with opinionated wankfests?

Isn't that what the BgBB is, at least in pat, for?

I know I really shouldn't post twice in a row with enough combined content to be worth half a post… but I can, so I will.

There's nothing at all wrong with opinionated wankfests in general, my point was regarding opinionated wankfests about music, which are about as valuable as opinionated playground wankfests about "my Dad is tougher than your Dad", or some such. My music is, your music isn't, NuMetal yay, NuMetal boo! I mean seriously, it's the music industry equivelent of fat, retarded lounge lizard and drunken thug sports fans worshipping their chosen teams with blind abandonment, except for the fact that they're being mindlessly competitive about something that actually -IS- competitive.

And that's my wet sackload to contribute to this entirely new opinionated wankfest.

Two cents? More like two squirts.

(Course, I'm really only being bitter coz I couldn't get Placebo tickets and I missed the Foo's despite having tickets coz I had to work...)

I think my point has more to do what the man was burned for originally and how it's been twisted and tainted. It's like the the way the bridge felt in Virtual Light as opposed to All Tomorrow's Parties. In the later, it was more accepted and less wild. I mean, there was a Lucky Dragon (think 7/11) on the bridge!

By all means, go, create, explore, broaden your consciousiness or just check out the variety of crazy shit going down :) and get your tickets-worth.

I look at todays Burning Man just like todays Woodstock. A crass commerical venture thats out to make a buck first and nurture the creative spirit second.

totally, commercialization is present, however it�s not really overt. there is no sponsorship, no ticket master, no pepsi / miller beer / bacardi rum 18-wheelers parked on the playa. i guess you can say there is no visible advertising more then there is little commercialization (unless you take into consideration the sky writing attempt sex.com tried�) and i'm sure the organisers are very aware that if they had the sponsors and 18 dollar bottles of water… people would -still- go. there would be a shift in -who- comes of course. i wouldn't go, many others wouldn't. but they would still have a shit load of people and the ticket sales. yet they don't do it. no pepsi! no thinking young! to be honest sometimes i do wonder why. *shrug* it's all sometimes very subtle.

hrm... but, for many people, varying degrees of commercialism is what the whole thing �is- about. you can�t really separate yourself from a commercial system. for people just going there, getting camping supplies a year in advance, saving up the money for food/water/transport/misc. the mobs of �burners� that descend on reno�s wal-mart (fuck you MS word. i�ll be damned if i capitalize wal-mart. *cough*) sleep in the hotels and wander about the casinos.

unless you�re creative or have access to co-ops, trading and bartering situations (exchange of goods/services for goods/services), dumpsters or other such uhm alternatives, there is no choice other then participation in the exchange of money. plus, even when there where no tickets there where still expenses, gas� beer� fireworks� ammo. hehe. though from what i�ve been told, you didn�t have people trying to �out-freak� each other. people where themselves (as much as that means anything)

i don�t really have a point here, i just like exchanging ideas. :) pardon me johnny for my wordyness.

but you�re right, it is different from when it started, the intent has changed, the agendas etc etc. some people say that the burning of the temple the day after the man burns has recaptured the feeling and the mentality of the early years. who knows?

hrm, wonder if it can be said that the sheer size of the whole thing limits how wild it �can- be now. streets are needed, �cops� are needed (it is still in a country that likes to uphold its laws), first aid (once had to sit by a friend who didn�t understand what �drinking water in the desert� �really- means), maps, porta potties. all these things are a safety net for the ...sillyness... of crowds. so of course it�s tame. people have died, been severly injured... things like that look bad on permit applications... permits exist. sad truth, -i- need a permit to set my tripod legs down on certain city streets.

inside however, in the mazes of tents, RV,s, dead ends, empty playa, art sculptures, odd transportation and constructions is where you can encounter people. a lot of them can be -quite- wild
*eyes* i�m NOT talking wild like �girls gone wild� videos� git yer minds outa that guttah!

anyhoo... enough of that.

resistance is futile but it's also a riot. :biggrin:

(Edited by Bias at 3:49 pm on April 30, 2003)

Ok, So I wasn't quite sure what burning man was…..so I googled it up....then I clicked on the link for www.burningman.com

Once there I saw a giant -PINK- bunny rabbint and a huge rubber ducky, and some dude dressed up like a flower....

I've realized...I don't really care what burning man is if I have to look at pink bunny rabbits and some dork dressed up like a flower.